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- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: That is the information we have got from people who were in the room.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: The Minister has pushed this agenda since this report came out. I remind the House that the report was only passed on the basis of the chairperson's casting vote. In an unprecedented step, the CEO of Cork City Council came out and outlined the reasons this should not happen. I accept that the chief executive of Cork County Council, Tim Lucey, is now saying he is in favour of it. Just two...
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: Cork County Council has not even debated the issue in public yet. The council has not even debated the issue in public and the Minister is determined to bring it to Cabinet and push it through as quickly as possible.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: I agree with everything Deputy Martin has said. There is a number of falsehoods being put out there by independent people who are in favour of it and I will point them out to the Minister. The chief executive of Cork City Council, Ann Doherty, has taken the unprecedented step of releasing a statement in order to debunk some of the myths, one of which is the assertion that a merger would...
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: The people of Cork, the ordinary citizens, had no opportunity. There were no town hall meetings organised. No one went out and discussed it.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: Sorry?
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: In all fairness, now.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: We are talking about the largest county in this State and about merging the city and county councils at the whim of your boyos. It is not acceptable.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: It is not acceptable.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: Maybe it is because the Labour Party does not have any councillors on Cork City Council.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: Deputy Ciarán Lynch has another view.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: Has the Minister read it?
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: That is not what we said.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: That is a lie----
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: That is a lie. The very second line of our submission----
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: The second line of our submission refers to the need for an economically viable local authority. The Minister should not come to the House and tell stories.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: I just have.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: Regardless of whether I am out of order, the fact is the Minister just told a lie.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: That is fine.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: That is not true.